Document Type

Article

Date

2004

Keywords

Communication, Swarm Intelligence, Ant System, Data Mining, Sensor Network

Language

English

Disciplines

Digital Communications and Networking

Description/Abstract

The need for a robust predictive sensor communication network inspired this research. There are many critical issues in a communication network with different data rate requirements, limited power and bandwidth. Energy consumption is one of the key issues in a sensor network as energy dissipation occurs during routing, communication and monitoring of the environment. This paper covers the routing of a sensor communication network by applying an evolutionary algorithm- the ant system. The issues considered include optimal energy, data fusion from different sensor types and predicting changes in environment with respect to time.

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